Writing Faculty
Gerry Albarelli
Courses: Oral History and Creative Nonfiction
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. M.A., Brown University. Author of Teacha! Stories from a Yeshiva (Glad Day Books, 2001), chronicling his experience as a non-Jew teaching English as a second language to Yiddish-speaking Hasidic boys at a yeshiva in Brooklyn; has published stories in numerous anthologies and reviews, including The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories, Global City Review, The Breast, and Fairleigh Dickinson Review; on the faculty of Eugene Lang College; works for the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, where he has initiated numerous documentary projects; conducted hundreds of life history interviews with gay cops, retired vaudevillians and showgirls, ironworkers, immigrants, and, most recently, people affected by the events of September 11; most recently worked as an educator and project designer on Columbia University’s “Telling Lives Oral History Proj-ect,” which culminated in seven books, two documentary films, and a multimedia exhibit; served as editor of three of the books, producer of the documentaries, and as a curator of this exhibit. SLC, 2004-
Jo Ann Beard
Courses: Nonfiction Writing
B.F.A., M.A., University of Iowa. Essayist and creative nonfiction writer; author of The Boys of My Youth, a collection of autobiographical essays, as well as essays/articles published in magazines, journals, and anthologies. Recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award. SLC, 2000-2005; 2007-
Mr. Thomas Beller
B.A., Vassar College. M.A., Columbia University. Author of Seduction Theory: Stories and The Sleep-Over Artist: A Novel, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book 2000; a collection of essays, How to Be a Man, is forthcoming in 2005 (all books published by W. W. Norton); former staff writer at The New Yorker and the Cambodia Daily, short stories published in The New Yorker, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, and Best American Short Stories; journalism and essays in Vogue, The New York Times, Spin, and New York; founding editor of Open City magazine and books and Mrbellersneighborhood.com, which was nominated for a Webby Award in the Print and Zine category in 2002. SLC, 2004-
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Author of Small Gods of Grief and The Hour Between Dog and Wolf and editor of Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles and Renegades; Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City; and Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels Restaurants, and Bars, co-edited with Kurt Brown; her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Ohio Review, The Washington Post and AGNI; has worked for radio and television in Belgium and Luxembourg, and has translated Flemish poety into English and English poetry into French. SLC, 2001-
Melvin Jules Bukiet
Courses: Fiction Workshop
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. M.F.A., Columbia University. Author of Sandman’s Dust, Stories of an Imaginary Childhood, While the Messiah Tarries, After, Signs and Wonders, Strange Fire, and A Faker’s Dozen; editor of Neurotica, Nothing Makes You Free, and Scribblers on the Roof. Works have been translated into half a dozen languages and frequently anthologized; winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and other prizes; fiction and essays published in Antaeus, The Paris Review, The Harvard Review, The American Scholar, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other magazines and newspapers. SLC, 1993-
Tina Chang
Courses: Poetry Workshop: Rebels, Wizards, Sirens, Outlaws
M.F.A., Columbia University. Poet; author of Half-Lit Houses (Four WayBooks, 2004). Poems published in journals including American Poet, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, and in many anthologies including Identity Lessons, Poetry Nation, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, Poets 30: Poets in Their Thirties. Recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Poets & Writers, as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Djerassi, among others. SLC, 2005-
Rachel Cohen
Courses: Some Moments in the History of the Essay
A.B., Harvard University. Author of A Chance Meeting (Random House, 2004), a nonfiction book tracing a chain of thirty American writers and artists who knew or influenced or met one another over the period from the Civil War to the civil rights movement; winner of the 2003 PEN/Jerard Fund Award. Essays in The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, McSweeney’s, DoubleTake, Parnassus, and Modern Painters and in 2003 Best American Essays and 2003 Pushcart Prize anthologies. Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. SLC, 2003-
Cynthia Cruz
M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College. B.A., Mills College. Poet; author of Ruin (Alice James Books); poems published in journals including American Poetry Review, AGNI, Grand Street, Boston Review, Paris Review, Colorado Review, and Denver Quarterly. Anthologized in Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. Recipient of fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. SLC, 2007-
Stephen Dobyns
Author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including a recent book of poems Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides. Book Cemetery Nights won the Poetry Society of Americas 1987 Melville Cane Award; received a Guggenheim fellowship and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Taught at a dozen colleges and universities including the University of Iowa, Boston University, and the M.F.A. Program at Warren Wilson College. Recently published his first collection of short stories, Eating Naked: Stories, two stories that appeared in The Best American Short Stories 1995 and 1999; poetry collection, The Porcupines Kisses, was published by Penguin in fall 2002. SLC, 2003-
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Courses: Poetry Workshop: A Risk in Every Room, Poetry Workshop: The New Black Aesthetic
M.F.A., Brown University. Poet; author of The Maverick Room; “The Good Junk” (from Take Three #1); two chapbooks, The Genuine Negro Hero and Song On; and the forthcoming Quotes Community: Notes for Black Writers. Co-founder of the Dark Room Collective and the recipient of a Mrs. Giles Whiting Writers Award as well as fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Grand Street, Tin House, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Callaloo, and The Best American Poetry, 1997 and 2001. SLC, 2006-
Carolyn Ferrell
Courses: Fiction Workshop
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. M.A., City College of New York. Author of the short story collection Don’t Erase Me, awarded the Art Seidenbaum Award of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the John C. Zachiris Award given by Ploughshares, and the Quality Paperback Book Prize for First Fiction; stories anthologized in The Best American Short Stories of the Century; Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers; The Blue Light Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love; and Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present; recipient of grants from the Fulbright Association, the German Academic Exchange (D.A.A.D.), the City University of New York MAGNET Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts (Literature fellow for 2004). SLC, 1996-
Suzanne Gardinier
Courses: First-Year Studies in Poetry: The Making of the Complete Lover
B.A., University of Massachusetts-Amherst. M.F.A., Columbia University. Author of The New World, winner of Associated Writing Programs Award Series in poetry; A World That Will Hold All the People, essays on poetry and politics; and Today: 101 Ghazals. Fiction in The Kenyon Review, The American Voice, and The Paris Review; recipient of the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence in the Essay and of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. SLC, 1994-
Myra Goldberg
Courses: First-Year Studies: Writing and Other Arts, Words and Pictures
B.A., University of California-Berkeley. M.A., City University of New York. Author of Whistling and Rosalind: A Family Romance; stories published in journals including The Transatlantic Review, Ploughshares, Feminist Studies, The Massachusetts Review, The New England Review, and in the book anthologies Women in Literature, Powers of Desire, The World’s Greatest Love Stories, and elsewhere in the U.S. and France; nonfiction published in the Village Voice and elsewhere; recipient of Lebensberger Foundation grant. SLC, 1985-
Matthea Harvey
B.A., Harvard College. M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Poet; author of Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000); Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004); Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007); and a children’s book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake (Soft Skull Press, 2007). Contributing editor for jubilat and BOMB. Has taught at Warren Wilson, the Pratt Institute, and the University of Houston. SLC, 2004-
Joshua Henkin
Courses: Fiction Workshop
B.A., Harvard College. M.F.A., University of Michigan. Author of the novel Swimming Across the Hudson; short stories in DoubleTake, Ploughshares, Southern Review, North American Review, Boulevard, and elsewhere; nonfiction in The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Mother Jones, and elsewhere; grants from PEN and the Michigan Council of the Arts. SLC, 2000-
Kathleen Hill
B.A., Manhattanville College. M.A., Columbia University. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Author of novel, Still Waters in Niger; finalist in French translation, Prix Femina. Recent fiction published in DoubleTake, The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review; anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Pushcart. Recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts grant and National Endowment for the Arts Award. SLC, 1991-1994; 1997-
David Hollander
B.A., State University of New York-Purchase. M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Author of L.I.E., a Novel; stories published in The Black Warrior Review, Swink, Failbetter, The Brooklyn Rail, and Unsaid, and also anthologized in the book 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11; nonfiction in The New York Times Magazine, Poets & Writers magazine, Gastronomica, and elsewhere; stories broadcast on Anything Goes, WNYE public radio; winner of the 1994 Barbara Schoen Memorial Prize in Fiction; finalist for the 1996 Henfield Award and the 2000 NYPL Literary Lions Award. SLC, 2000-
Cathy Park Hong
Courses: First-Year Studies: Exploring Voice, Image, and Form in Poetry
B.A., Oberlin College. M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Poet; author of Translating Mo’um (Hanging Loose Press, 2002) and Dance Dance Revolution (W. W. Norton, 2007), which was chosen for the Barnard New Women’s Poets Series; recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Fulbright grant for South Korea; work has been published in Pushcart Prize anthology and New Asian American Anthology, The Next Generation, among others; essays and articles published in the Village Voice, Guardian, Salon, and Christian Science Monitor. SLC, 2006-
Marie Howe
Courses: Poetry Workshop
B.S., University of Windsor. M.F.A., Columbia University. Poet; author of The Good Thief, selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series; editor, with Michael Klein, of In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic; author of What the Living Do; recipient of the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poet Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Mary Ingram Bunting fellowship from Radcliffe College, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artist Foundation, and the Guggenheim. SLC, 1993-
Kate Knapp Johnson
Director, Graduate Writing Program in Poetry
Courses: Undergraduate Poetry Workshop
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Columbia School of the Arts. M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College. NCPsyA, Westchester Institute. Special interests include Jungian studies and religion; author of When Orchids Were Flowers, This Perfect Life, and Wind Somewhere, and Shade, which received the Gradiva Award; most recently published in Ploughshares, The Salt Journal, Luna, and The Sun; recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Award. SLC, 1987-
Elizabeth Kadetsky
M.F.A., University of California Irvine, Creative Writing/Fiction; M.S., Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; B.A., University of California Santa Cruz. Author, First There Is a Mountain, a memoir set in India dealing with the recreation of yoga in twentieth century India by and the role of Orientalism, Anglo-philia and nationalism in the life of the Indian yoga great B.K.S. Iyengar. Winner of the Pushcart Prize in fiction; finalist in manuscript awards including the Flannery O’Connor short story award, AWP’s Grace Paley Award and the Iowa Fiction Prize. Fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Dodge Foundation, Ucross Foundation and Ragdale Foundation. Essays and journalism in Santa Monica Review, the Village Voice, the Nation, forthcoming in anthology from Simon & Schuster, The Nuclear Bomb, and in several other journals, magazines and anthologies. SLC, 2005-
William Melvin Kelley
Courses: First-Year Studies: Writing Prose Fiction
Harvard College. Fiction writer and videomaker; author of A Different Drummer, Dancers on the Shore, A Drop of Patience, dem, Dunfords Travels Everywheres, and stories and nonfiction in The New Yorker, Esquire, Mademoiselle, and Saturday Evening Post; awards and grants from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. SLC, 1989-
Mary LaChapelle
Director, Graduate Program in Fiction
Courses: Fiction Writing Workshop
B.A., University of Minnesota. M.F.A., Vermont College. Author of House of Heroes and Other Stories; stories published in Nimrod, Northern Lit Review, Redbook, and First; anthologized in the U.S., Japan, and England; recipient of awards from PEN/Nelson Algren, Whiting, Katherine Anne Porter, and of a Bush Foundation fellowship. SLC, 1992-
Joan Larkin
B.A., Swarthmore College. M.A., University of Arizona. M.F.A. (playwriting), Brooklyn College. Poet; author of Housework, A Long Sound, and Cold River (poetry); The AIDS Passion, The Living, The Hole in the Sheet, and Brother Dust (plays); If You Want What We Have and Glad Day (prose); translator, with Jaime Manrique, of Sor Juana’s Love Poems; editor of four anthologies; recipient of two Lambda Literary Awards for poetry and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. SLC, 1996-
Paul Lisicky
B.A., M.A., Rutgers University. M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Fiction writer and memoirist. Author of the novel Lawnboy, the memoir Famous Builder, and stories and essays in magazines and anthologies including Boulevard, Mississippi Review, Flash Fiction, and elsewhere. Recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Michener/Copernicus Society, Henfield Foundation, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. SLC, 2001-
Jeffrey McDaniel
Courses: Poetry Workshop, Poetry Workshop, Humor with Teeth
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. M.F.A., George Mason University. Poet. Author of four books of poetry: The Endarkenment (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), Alibi School, The Forgiveness Parade, and The Splinter Factory. Poems published in many anthologies, including Best American Poetry, New (American) Poets, and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Washington, D.C., Commission for the Arts. SLC, 2001-
Catherine McKinley
Courses: First-Year Studies: Regarding the Self and Others, The Writer and the World: Ethics and Imagination in Creative Nonfiction
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Graduate fellow, Africana studies, Cornell University. Author of The Book of Sarahs; editor of Afrekete and Writing Between the Lines: An Epistolary History of African American Writing, 1750-2000 (forthcoming 2008). Recipient of grants from William H. Fulbright, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Audre Lorde Estate; residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Hedgebrook. SLC, 2005-
Ernesto Mestre
Courses: Don Quixote, the Twentieth-Century North American Picaresque and the Twenty-First-Century Writer: A Reading and Writing Workshop, From the Particulars of Culture to Universality: A Craft Workshop
B.A., Tulane University. Author of three novels, The Lazarus Rumba, The Second Death of Única Aveyano, and the forthcoming Sacrificio. Also translated three novels from Spanish and is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. SLC, 1999-
Mary Morris
Courses: The Art of the Short Story: Connected Collections
B.A., Tufts College. M.Phil., Columbia University. Novelist, short-story writer, and writer of travel literature. Author of the novels Crossroads, The Waiting Room, The Night Sky, House Arrest, Acts of God, and Revenge; the short-story collections Vanishing Animals and Other Stories, The Bus of Dreams, and The Lifeguard Stories; the travel memoirs Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone and Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail; an anthology of the travel literature of women, Maiden Voyages and Angels and Aliens: A Journey West, and The River Queen. A book about the Mississippi River is forthcoming (Henry Holt and Company). Recent work in Antaeus, Boulevard, and Epoch; recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Creative Artists Public Service Awards. SLC, 1994-
Brian Morton
Michele Tolela Myers Chair in Writing
Courses: Writing and Reading Fiction, The Art of the Short Novel
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Author of the novels The Dylanist, Starting Out in the Evening, A Window Across the River, and Breakable You. SLC, 1998-
April Reynolds Mosolino
Courses: Fiction Workshop
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Taught at the 92nd Street Y and New York University; her short story, Alcestis, appeared in The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love; her fiction work has also appeared in the anthology Mending the World with Basic Books, 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11 with New York University Press, and The Heretics Bible with Free Press. Her first novel, Knee-Deep in Wonder, won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Award. Her second novel, The Book of Charlemagne, is forthcoming (Free Press/Simon & Schuster). SLC, 2003-
Dennis Nurkse
B.A., Harvard. Author of eight books of poetry, including Burnt Island (forthcoming), The Fall, The Rules of Paradise, Leaving Xaia, and Voices over Water; poems have appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly; the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, and two awards from Poetry. SLC, 2004-
Stephen O'Connor
Courses: Nonfiction Laboratory
B.A., Columbia University. M.A., University of California-Berkeley. Author of Rescue, short fiction and poetry; Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, memoir and social analysis; Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed, history. Fiction and poetry have appeared in Conjunctions, TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review, The Quarterly, Partisan Review, The Massachusetts Review, Fiction International, and elsewhere. Essays and journalism have been published in The New York Times, DoubleTake, The Nation, AGNI, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and New Labor Forum, among others. Recipient of the Cornell Woolrich Fellowship in Creative Writing from Columbia University; the Visiting Fellowship for Historical Research by Artists and Writers from the American Antiquarian Society; and the DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. SLC, 1997; 2002-
Kevin Pilkington
Writing Coordinator
B.A., St. John’s University. M.A., Georgetown University. Teaches a graduate workshop at Manhattanville College; author of five collections: Spare Change was the La Jolla Poets Press National Book Award winner and his chapbook won the Ledge Poetry Prize; his collection entitled Ready to Eat the Sky was published by River City Publishing as part of its new poetry series selected by Andrew Hudgins and was a finalist for the 2005 Independent Publishers Books Award; new chapbook entitled St. Andrew’s Head was published by Camber Press. Poetry has appeared in many anthologies including Birthday Poems: A Celebration, Western Wind, and Contemporary Poetry of New England. Nominated for four Pushcarts. Poems and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines including Poetry, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Boston Review, Yankee, Hayden’s Ferry, Columbia, Greensboro Review, The Louisville Review, Gulf Coast, Valparaiso Review. SLC, 1991-
Victoria Redel
Courses: Memory and Fiction
B.A., Dartmouth College. M.F.A., Columbia University. Author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction. Latest novel, The Border of Truth (Counterpoint, 2007), weaves the situation of refugees and a daughter’s awakening to the history and secrets of her father’s survival and loss. Loverboy (Graywolf, 2001/ Harcourt, 2002) was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and the 2002 Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize and was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book. Loverboy was adapted for a feature film directed by Kevin Bacon. Most recent collection of poems, Swoon (University of Chicago Press, 2003), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. SLC, 1996-
Nelly Reifler
Courses: Fiction Workshop
B.A., Hampshire College. M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Author of short story collection See Through; fiction in magazines and journals including Bomb, Post Road, McSweeney’s, Nerve, and Black Book, as well as in the anthologies 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11 and Lost Tribe: New Jewish Fiction from the Edge. Recipient of a Henfield Prize in 1995, a UAS Explorations Prize in 1997, and a Rotunda Gallery Emerging Curator grant for work with fiction and art in 2001. Columnist for Nextbook.org, 2006-present; codirector of Pratt Institute’s Friday Forum, 2005-present; founder and president, Dainty Rubbish record company. SLC, 2002-
Lucy Rosenthal
Courses: Fiction Workshop
B.A., University of Michigan. M.S., Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. Fiction writer, critic, editor, playwright; author of the novel The Ticket Out and editor of anthologies Great American Love Stories, World Treasury of Love Stories, and The Eloquent Short Story: Varieties of Narration; reviews and articles published in the Washing-ton Post, Chicago Tribune Book World, Ms., Saturday Review, The New York Times Book Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review; plays produced at Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theater Center, Waterford, Conn.; recipient, Pulitzer Fellowship in Critical Writing; served on Book-of-the-Month Club’s Editorial Board of judges and as the Club’s senior editorial adviser. SLC, 1988-
Vijay Seshadri
Director, Graduate Program in Creative Non-Fiction
Courses: The Music of Nonfiction Writing
B.A., Oberlin College. M.F.A., Columbia University. Author of Wild Kingdom and The Long Meadow (poetry collections); former editor at The New Yorker; essayist and book reviewer in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, The American Scholar, and various literary quarterlies; recipient of the James Laughlin Prize of the Aca-demy of American Poets, MacDowell Colony’s Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement, The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize, New York Foundation for the Arts grant, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial fellowship and area studies fellowships from Columbia University. SLC, 1998-
Joan Silber
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. M.A., New York University. Author of two short-story collections, Ideas of Heaven (finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize) and In My Other Life, and three novels, Lucky Us, In the City, and Household Words, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award; short stories anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Prize, and The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work; stories in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares; recipient of grants from National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. SLC, 1985-1990; 1991-1992; 1995-
Scott Snyder
Courses: Fiction Workshop
B.A., Brown University. M.F.A., Columbia University. Author of the short story collection Voodoo Heart (Dial Press). Stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Epoch, Tin House, and One Story, among other journals. SLC, 2006-
Brooke Stevens
Courses: Fiction Workshop
M.A., Johns Hopkins University. Author of the novels The Circus of the Earth and the Air, Tattoo Girl, and Kissing Your Ex;finalist of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and the World Fantasy Award. Novels have been published in Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and the United States. SLC, 1993-
Penny Wolfson
Courses: Writing in the First Person–The Craft of the Essay
B.A., M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Has taught in the Sarah Lawrence graduate program for the last three years. Recipient of a National Magazine Award in 2002 for her essay Moonrise, which was also included in Best American Essays, and published a memoir of the same name in 2003. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and in literary reviews. Her latest essay, “Double Lives, or the Meaning of Bigamy,” was recently published in Chelsea. SLC, 2003-
Carol Zoref
Writing Coordinator
B.A., M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Fiction writer and essayist; recipient of fellowships and grants from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hall Farm Center for Arts, and In Our Own Write; winner of I.O.W.W. Emerging Artist Award; and finalist for the Henfield and American Fiction Awards and Pushcart Prize. SLC, 1996-